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Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80% (www.readthemaple.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

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[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 53 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, the issue here isn't the middle class, it's as usual, the owner class that's the problem

[-] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 5 points 18 hours ago

The middle class is their tool. They are incented to perpetuate this bullshit.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 34 points 17 hours ago

The middle class is like the personal carbon footprint - it's a fabrication created by the ultra-wealthy to divert responsibility from themselves. There is only the owner class and the working class.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 12 hours ago

Except the middle class actually does own most stuff, and consume the most. The ultra-rich are rich, but there's just so few of them.

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

In Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century the breakdown for US wealth distribution was something like: top 1% has ~30%, top 10% has ~50% (that includes the 1%), the next top 40% have almost all the rest so like ~49%, and the bottom 50% of the economic ladder has that 1%. That was a decade ago, and its gotten worse since then

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

I respectfully disagree. The middle class is not perfect, but the issue here is the ruling class

[-] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

How are you (OP) blaming the "middle" class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?

I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.